The 11th Asian Tourism Fair 2024 will kick off in Dhaka on Thursday to boost the tourism industry in Bangladesh. This fair will be held for three days, September 19-21, at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka. The fair will be open from 10am to 8pm every day. It will be inaugurated on September 19 at 3pm. A press conference in this regard was held in a city hotel on Tuesday.
Country eminent economist Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, also the head of the committee on drafting a white paper on the state of economy, today said they would investigate how the calculations on key macroeconomic indicators like GDP, gross national income (GNI) and inflation were done in the past.
“In the broad line, we have identified the estimations that had been done were based on very weak physical foundation,” he said while briefing reporters at the Nazia Salma Conference Room of the Planning Commission in the capital Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area today.
He mentioned that on many occasions the officials who had prepared the estimations often felt helpless under pressure from the previous government.
“They were compelled to give those estimations, they told us so,” he added.
Chief Adviser Relief and Welfare Fund donates a grant of Tk 100 crore for July Shaheed Smriti Foundation which formed for the rehabilitation and medical assistance of the victims of the July Uprising.
Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Adviser Md. Nahid Islam said this information while he was speaking as chief guest at Banani Vidyaniketan School and College in the capital yesterday evening.
He unveiled a name plaque of Shaheed Golam Nafiz Bhavan of Banani Vidyaniketan School and College.
It is mentionable that Golam Nafiz, a student of the school, was died in the student movement.
The interim government today fixed the prices of eggs, sonali chicken and broiler chicken at Tk 11.87, Tk 269.64, and Tk 179.59 respectively at the retail level.
The prices of egg in the production level has been fixed at Tk 10.58 while Tk 11.01 at wholesale level.
Moreover, the prices of Sonali chicken has been fixed at Tk 260.78 in production level and Tk 264.57 in wholesale level.
The prices of broiler chicken in production level has been fixed at Tk 168.91 while Tk 172.61 in wholesale.